Il giorno lun, 04/11/2019 alle 13.20 -0500, Alan Stern ha scritto: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Andrea Vai wrote: > > > > The "linux" directory is the one generated by a fresh git clone: > > > > > > git clone > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > > Meanwhile, Alan tried to help me and gave me another patch > (attached), > > which doesn't work too, but gives a different error: "The git diff > > header does not contain information about the file once removed 1 > > initial component of the path (row 14)" (actually, this is my > > translation from the original message in Italian: "error: > > l'intestazione git diff non riporta le informazioni sul file una > volta > > rimosso 1 componente iniziale del percorso (riga 14)") > > > > I tested the two patches after a fresh git clone today, a few > minutes > > ago. > > > > What can I do? > > You should be able to do something like this: > > cd linux > patch -p1 </path/to/patch2 > > and that should work with no errors. You don't need to use git to > apply a patch. > > In case that patch2 file was mangled somewhere along the way, I > have > attached a copy to this message. Ok, so the "patch" command worked, the kernel compiled and ran, but the test still failed (273, 108, 104, 260, 177, 236, 179, 1123, 289, 873 seconds to copy a 500MB file, vs. ~30 seconds with the "good" kernel). Let me know what else could I do, Thanks, and bye Andrea
